SSH Passwordless Login Using SSH Keygen in 5 Easy Steps

SSH (Secure SHELL) is an open source and most trusted network protocol that is used to login into remote servers for execution of commands and programs. It is also used to transfer files from one computer to another computer over the network using secure copy (SCP) Protocol.

In this article we will show you how to setup password-less login on RHEL/CentOS 7.x/6.x/5.x and Fedora using ssh keys to connect to remote Linux servers without entering password. Using Password-less login with SSH keys will increase the trust between two Linux servers for easy file synchronization or transfer.

Setup SSH Passwordless Login

My Setup Environment

If you are dealing with number of Linux remote servers, then SSH Password-less login is one of the best way to automate tasks such as automatic backups with scripts, synchronization files using scp and remote command execution.

In this example we will setup SSH password-less automatic login from server 192.168.0.12 as user tecmint to 192.168.0.11 with user sheena.

Step 1: Create Authentication SSH-Kegen Keys on – (192.168.0.12)

First login into server 192.168.0.12 with user tecmint and generate a pair of public keys using following command.

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Possible to update your publickey authentication method from ssh1 to ssh2 protocol-2 – as ssh1 is pretty much obsolete. As well proper use of ssh-keygen to generate higher value key-types for better ssh security!

Thanks buddy, you explained this well. I liked your explanation and it was helpful to me in creating a passwordless ssh on my single node cluster. I’ll try similar steps on my multinode hadoop cluster.